Marked for Denys Kryvtsov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market21 Feb 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Livyi Bereh can pretend not to have heard.
Match21 Feb 2028
41 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Yaroslav Buravtsov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Sidnney falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match19 Feb 2028
0‑1 to Chernihiv, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Livyi Bereh know it.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
7.71, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Livyi Bereh had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Market27 Sep 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Livyi Bereh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match25 Sep 2027
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Yaroslav Buravtsov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Livyi Bereh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sidnney is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Borys Manko gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Something was said to Nazar Voloshyn and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denys Kryvtsov commits to Livyi Bereh for another 3 years.
Match25 Sep 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
18 goals and a season average of 7.49. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Illia Kvasnytsia has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for Livyi Bereh
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Victoriia Sumy were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vladyslav Kocherhin has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Denys Kryvtsov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Andrii Yakymiv falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.